Act 260 The Sea of Glitter, the Sea Route to Ampesel (Part II)
…… Lord, there seems to be a problem. As Calglis approached the young non-commissioned officer, he whispered to Brando.
"Huh?" Brando turned around, and Calglis, and the White Lion Sergeant on duty today were responsible for patrolling under the cabin, mainly to ensure the safety of "cargo." This time, Brando brought the first batch of White Lion Armor jointly made by Master Beru and Tamar, which was different from the standard Xiong armor of the light armored swordsman White Lion Swordsman used by the Eruin royal family today, and after adding design ideas from Brando and Ottales, it was more similar to the original White Lion Armor that Ek had improved.
The White Lion Armor is derived from the Wind Elf's White Wing Knight's standard armor, but the technology is far inferior to the latter after using the human forging process. In the early years, the white lion swordsman was also called the White Lion Guard, and Eruin has a large number of documents to record that "the king led the knights to unify the south" The "king" here is the first king Ek, and the "knight" is the white lion guard. The White Lion Guards and the Silver Elf Temple Guardians used to be the two core strengths of Eruin, and legend has it that the White Lion Guards were truly a nearly fourth-order class, and they were only slightly inferior to the White Wing Knights. However, as early as the fall of the Siphah Dynasty, Ek's improved White Lion tactics had been lost, and a considerable amount of information on the forging method of the White Lion Armor had been lost.
These lost information can't be completed even by Brando and Ortales, but as the saying goes, every warrior is half a blacksmith, although the two of them don't know anything about the original White Lion Armor, but they know everything about the imitation object of the White Lion Armor, the Wind Rear Body Armor, in the past game, in Eruin is a fairly popular armor, because of the high degree of protection, light and flexible, the key is that there have been quite a number of Wind Rear Body Armor into the kingdom in history, so it is not uncommon, a Brando is fortunate enough to get such a set of armor. As for Otares, needless to say, she is the knight of the Wind Queen, the high-level of the Wind Elf, and she knows some of the secrets of the Wind Elf well, even if the two of them can't come up with the complete design of the Wind Queen's body armor, but it should be said that there is no problem in knocking and imitating a set.
The newly made white lion armor is further reborn from the half-body armor after the wind, and the armor is more similar to the half-body armor in the original form of xiong armor. However, thanks to the blessing of the wind elf's unique magic circle, it is not inferior to the original in terms of dexterity and lightness, and the protection has been further strengthened. The Wall of Wind spell attached to the armor can defend against arrows at a distance of 100 meters, and it also has a great deal of counteract for the effect of sword slashing, and it is difficult to even split this armor without using all the strength in the middle of the black iron.
In addition, the armor is also equipped with a magic circle of light spirit magic and dehumidification, so that the wearer will not feel tired even if he wears this armor for a long time. Of course, this qiē is not without a price, the player's bad habit is to habitually invest all the best things at hand when forging a piece of equipment, and as a result, after a settlement, Brando was stunned, and the cost of the entire set of armor was as high as tens of thousands of tors, even with Brando's current financial resources, it was impossible to equip the entire White Lion Legion with such an outrageously expensive luxury.
After a final compromise, he decided to equip his officer corps with this suit of armor first, and set this suit of armor as the standard equipment of non-commissioned officers. As for the ordinary infantry, use the simplified version of the armor As for the simplified version, Beru is currently trying to find a way to dismantle some of the above things, mainly the most expensive magic crystals and magic circles, according to the old man's estimate, it is estimated that Brando will be able to produce results when he returns from Ampesel.
Brando knew that the master smith was planning to see how he would make his position on this trip to Ampesel, whether he was on the side of Her Royal Highness the Princess or the opposite. Berlu wanted to see if he was consistent with his words and deeds, and Brando didn't feel anything wrong with this, after all, no one would trust others for no reason, not to mention that Berlu's expectations did not conflict with his expectations.
Brando didn't actually think that anything would go wrong with the white lion armor placed under the cabin, and ordering people to patrol was just a routine, but when he heard the other party say this, he was slightly stunned for a moment.
But listen to the young non-commissioned officer continue: "Jetul heard strange noises under the bilge, which seemed to be coming from outside the cabin. Brando thought to himself that it was not the White Lion Armor that was wrong, and he turned his head and looked at James with an inquiring look. The bilge of the Far Land is full of cargo and ballast, and the strange sounds that can be heard anywhere except for rats are all from the cabin.
If it's a rat, it's not a thing to worry about, but if it's from outside the cabin, it's a problem. The sound doesn't travel as well in the water as it does in the air, and with a layer of planks, you can hear the sound either from something close to the outside or a behemoth coming from it.
"Which side?" The young captain immediately asked.
Brando turned his gaze to his men, and Calglis immediately replied, "It should be the port side." The young captain reacted quickly, and immediately turned around and beckoned, "Drop the crystal chain, port side!" Not far away, a sailor saw his gesture, ran over and pulled out a rope from a reel of cable, with a crystal-like object tied to the end, and threw it into the water on the left side of the farland. Brando recognized that thing, it was a special sound-sensitive magic crystal, it would vibrate if a sound source was close, there were many monsters in the open sea, and seafarers often used this thing to determine whether there were sea beasts lurking under the ship, and it was said that experienced sailors could tell what kind of creature was approaching just by the vibration frequency of the crystal chain.
However, the sailor obviously did not have such ability, and as soon as he threw the crystal chain down, he couldn't help but exclaim: "There are things down there, a lot!" ”
"Ring the alarm and get ready to fight! The young captain's face was grim, the sea was calm, and the ship was already surrounded by unknown creatures, and it was obvious that the person who came had a certain amount of wisdom and bad intentions. But Brando was the fastest to react in the present, and before James could speak, he had already rushed over and cut the rope on the sailor's hand with a sword, and the sailor was slightly stunned, and saw something under the sea pulling the rope "Whoosh, dragged down with a sound, the power of the thing under the sea is amazing, if it weren't for Brando's shot, he would have been dragged down with the rope as long as he let go a little slowly."
The sailor turned pale with fright, and for a moment forgot to thank him. But when Brando looked at the side of the ship, he turned back and said, "It's a humanoid." ”
Among the many monsters in the Flashing Sea, there are only a few humanoid creatures, except for a few fish-man tribes, namely merfolk and Naga, and in addition to lizardmen pirates.
However, lizardmen and pirates do not soak in water, and merfolk rarely attack humans, so those who approach so quietly are either mermaids or Naga.
James didn't believe for a moment that the young lord could determine what the enemy was in the sea with just one glance, but it was a fact that there was an enemy under the surface of the sea, and the other party had already shown a tendency to attack.
A sailor ran to the mainmast and rang the alarm, and the sailors below deck soon rushed up in full gear, "The Far Land, is a large ship, and there are forty sailors on board, plus the first mate,
The second mate, the captain of the sailors, the navigator, and Brando also ordered his non-commissioned officers to call the officer corps of the White Lion Infantry Regiment, so that the deck was densely packed with people.
Brando was much calmer than the young captain at the moment, because he knew the strength in his hands, and the current "Far Land" was comparable to the main warship below the third level of the kingdom, and it was not interesting for a pirate group to provoke such a ship. Brando stared at the sea, but his heart inexplicably remembered another period of history The famous British submarine hunting, he didn't know if the current "Far Land" was a warship disguised as a coal carrier back then.
But the nature is a little different.
At this time, black shadows had appeared on the surface of the sea, and the triangular fins broke through the water to form white waves, and Brando knew that it was a shark at a glance. There are at least sixteen or seventeen tribes on the surface of the Sea of Flashes who drive sharks to hunt, and the people of the sea taming sharks are as common as the inhabitants of the land taming wolves, and the mere sight of sharks cannot determine the identity of the other party.
James thought the same thing, and put his pipe in his bag, drew his sword, and went to the side of the ship.
But it was at this time that melodious singing sounded in the sea.
"It's a siren!" The young non-commissioned officers of the White Lion Infantry Regiment were fine, but the sailors screamed wildly when they heard the song. The Sirens are mythical creatures who are said to lure ships astray with their songs on the open seas, and are described in the Cruz epic as banshees with the body of a bird, but Brando knows that they have absolutely no connection to the harpies of the Jogandegang underground.
True sirens are truly mythical creatures, with female figures on their upper bodies and bird claws below their knees, and they are more beautiful than any woman in the mortal world, not to mention that their beautiful singing voices can make everyone who hears them lose their minds. The myths and stories describe all kinds of things, all of which say that after being hooked by the sirens, the ship will float on the sea all day long until it becomes a ghostly ghost ship, and most of the seafolk who grew up on the seashore grew up listening to such stories, so the sailors did not possess the body as soon as they heard this song, but it was Brando's "hillbillies" who seemed calmer.
"Bring your earbuds!" James immediately ordered that most seafarers were superstitious, and although the sirens had never seen them for hundreds of years, the legend alone was enough to prepare those who lived at sea, and he immediately took out the earplugs that he had prepared and plugged his ears.
The sailors did the same, but the officers of the White Lion Infantry Regiment were also prepared, and they also showed their ears.
Brando, who has also been at sea for several years in the past and has been deeply involved in the open sea, naturally knows more about what is at sea than James. But at this moment he did not say anything to stop the young captain's command, and the beautiful singing voice seemed to penetrate his brain, causing him to be slightly in a trance, but immediately came to his senses, and as soon as he realized that it was not the song of the Siren, he turned around and handed his earbuds to Antitina. The noble lady glared at him angrily, everyone was afraid of the siren's singing, but her lordship didn't believe in evil, she just didn't like his behavior of not caring about her own safety.
Almost everyone present saw that the young lord did not have earplugs, but was unmoved by the singing, and they couldn't help but be surprised for a while. They knew that Brando was a highland knight, and they all thought that it was a mystery that belonged to the wizard, but they didn't know that Brando's will attribute was terrifyingly high, not to mention that it was not the siren's singing voice at the moment, and Brando thought that the real siren might not be able to seduce him when he arrived here.
He turned back to the captain and said, "It's not a siren, it's a merfolk." ”
"What?" The captain wore earplugs and thought he had misheard.
"It's a merfolk," Brando said categorically, "Beneath the sea are the Naga, and I know that the merfolk of the Sea of Lights often act with them. ”!。 @ws